lant

Meanings

Noun

• Aged urine.
• (the card game)
• Any of several species of slender marine fishes of the genus Ammodytes. The common European species (Ammodytes tobianus (species)) and the American species (Ammodytes americanus (species)) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait.

Verb

• To flavor (ale) with aged urine.

Related

Similar words

• launce
• sand eel
• sand lance

Origin

• Alteration of earlier land, from Middle English land ("urine"), from Old English hland ("urine"), from Proto-West Germanic *hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą ("urine"), from Proto-Indo-European *klān- ("liquid, wet ground"). Cognate with Icelandic hland ("urine"), Norwegian Nynorsk land ("urine").
• Compare lance.